Posted on 09/06/2009 6:00:04 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
Back on Friday we published Mac OS X 10.6 benchmarks and found it to offer some terrific performance improvements , but at the same time, there were a few notable regressions. Apple engineers have been working hard at pushing technologies like Grand Central Dispatch (GCD), OpenCL, full 64-bit support, and other changes to their OS X stack to bolster its performance capabilities and reduce the overall footprint. Now that we have tested Mac OS X 10.6, we are seeing how its performance compares to that of Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" will be out in October and does have some performance improvements as our earlier tests have shown, but Canonical engineers have not been exclusively focusing on performance optimizations with this release. Can the Karmic Koala outperform Snow Leopard? Yes and no.
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Lotta bugs & software glitches in Snow Leopard on my iMac . Speed not there especially in Safari either. I’m not impressed as I thought I’d be. Been using Macs for 22 years, btw.
Very commendable. IMHO, if SnowLeopard, with all its GUI and other features can compare with a linux distro, it’s the linux OS that should be embarrassed.
After 22 years you should know better than run a dot 0 operating system.
:)
Need to fool with Ubuntu too. Been lazy or otherwise to busy. I still love Knoppix.
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